Laurence Topham, documentary filmmaker

Since joining the Guardian in 2008, Laurence has worked extensively in Uganda on the Guardian's development project in Katine, as well as covering three US elections, and making films about the phone-hacking scandal, the ten year 9/11 anniversary and Death Row. Prior to this he worked as a freelance director & cameraman - making documentaries for charities in the UK, Sierra Leone and Kenya, while also editing for the BBC. In 2007 he worked for Current TV, where he edited over 50 short-form documentaries for terrestrial broadcast.